28 Dec 2017 13:46:52
The price will be whatever was previously negotiated on the loan as it was originally with fee agreed. I also wouldn’t be surprised if that 10.7 is in Euros (not that it makes much difference mind) . Either way have to echo others…if he wants to come then just pay it because he’s a steal at that, also agree that for me he’s one of the best we’ve bought in. Comfortably a Prem class CB and you don’t get many of them willing to sign for Champ clubs or for less than £15m come to that!

28 Dec 2017 14:53:32
Agree with all to buy, but I do feel like we are being taken for a ride. Porto paid around 5M for him then he had a season on the bench unable to break the first team and now they want double. His buyout deal on Football manager is £6M which I thought was realistic. Also have to remember we probably already paid 1/ 2M in loan fee.

28 Dec 2017 22:47:48
Mutiny- interesting that you refer to FM because similarly I notice that on there we have an ‘agreed fee’ for Jota of £18m whilst his min release in his Spanish contract is in fact around £10m. Now they are hardly the gospel mind but equally they get there stats through Opta which suggests things like release fee’s would be pretty close. Problem when relying on FM (and clearly I spend more time on it than I should myself;) is that the game NEVER can take how real life works into account.
Take the Jota deal imagine his release fee is £10m so we say when first going for him that fee will be the fixed fee for the loan…. fine. But not really because in REAL life Athletico can just turn round and say well actually we were just about to give him a new contract which puts his release fee up to £18m. Well of course the player would sign it, as it means a pay rise…. so Athletico turn round to us and affectively say…. if you don’t agree the higher fee we go that way and then you are also stuck paying an extra £10k a week on the loan bill too boot…your call?! I love the game and its great as a rough guide but they will never get the nuisances down on the way the game REALLY works because computers just aren’t greedy enough or brazen enough!